Crime wave New York 2021 |
| Title: | Crime wave New York 2021 |
| URL: | https://www.seanhayes4nyc.com/post/new-york-is-in-the-middle-of-a-crime-wave |
| Description: | We can understand that from the closure of business because of pandemic restrictions we shall see a decrease in armed robberies, since many stores, banks and other businesses with cash were not open. However, the rise in homicides and shootings has no logical connection to the change in situations. What is the argument? Maybe we can understand an increase based on the increase in drug use during the pandemic, but the doubling of shootings is not something that can be just explained away - without argument.
Additionally, the detractors note that many of the crimes were crime of desperation caused by economic stress on families. However, this argument does not pan out when we consider the statistics. The reality is that throughout New York's history a link is not found between poverty and shootings. For example, the lowest homicide rate was, in New York, in 2016 and the poverty rate was higher in this year than in the year when we had the highest homicide rate - 1989. The stats do not add up to poverty being the cause of the increase in homicides and shootings. |
